Nature's Fury 2013

Nature's Fury - FIRST LEGO League Challenge 2013

Nature's Fury - Challenge and Resources

Team, group work, project management, collaboration, multi-tasking

• calendar - dates, events, checkpoints
• checklists - meetings, checkpoints, event prep - record, share

Job jar - stuff you can do if you don't have anything to do...

• plan robot runs - tasks, points - strategy * document, testing plan
• research for project
• "tools" - project organization, preparation for tournaments, checklists, tracking
• check forums - rule changes/clarification, cool robot tricks
• project presentation, repository - Prezi, Edmodo, WP, wikispaces, Google docs
• engineering design process * ask * imagine * plan, create * improve
• Core Values * list, review * practice sample team activities
• Gracious professionalism * photos, post-its,
• Document, record, track - photos, notes * repository - access, procedures - web-based - Edmodo, Dropbox, SharePoint ? flash drive * management, version control * program code
• Robot * ? map to program versions * base * tools for tasks ? standardized interface * battery access * 2 "identical" robots - manage revisions
• EV3 - programming, Bluetooth, software downloads, tutorials * source control, management * testing * archiving

Competition prep

• practice, practice
• no "all niters"
• no / minimal changes n days before competition - reason, notes, explanation, justification
• battery / power management
• additional people, jobs, supplies - families
• transportation - kids, tables, robots

Learn more...

• http://floridadisaster.com/
• EV3 Programming Environment - First Lego League - Nature's Fury - FLL - YouTube
• LEGO.com Mindstorms Funzone - Movies - About EV3 -
• LEGO.com Mindstorms Downloads - Updates - Software
• Learning to use My Blocks
• Robot Square - Tutorial: RobotC Bluetooth Examples
• EV3 Tutorial
• EV3 Information
• Mindboards • Index page
• EV3 | Robot Navigation
• The NXT STEP is EV3 - LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Blog
• LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Robot Commander for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store
• Mindstorms EV3 Tips And Tricks From The Creator Of Lego Wall-E | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
• STEMRobotics | STEM Education with a Robotics Implementation
• TechStart - Home

Project Plan - details

• plan for execution of the project including defining all necessary tasks and their products.
• Scope of Project
• Organization - summarizes roles and responsibilities
• task of the project in terms of its inputs, approach, and outputs.
• external schedule constraints, a schedule for each task, sub-task, or output of a task.
• tangible deliverables of task. Eg. Binders, Competition Robots, Prototypes, etc.

Referenced Documents

• FLL Participation Rules: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/challenge/participationrules
• Nature's Fury Challenge: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/sites/default/files/Challenge/NaturesFury/NATURE%27S%20FURY%20Challenge.pdf
• Core Values: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/mission/corevalues